Hello. Currently, in the portage tree there is phoenix-cvs (source) and phoenix-bin (binary). Similarly, I'd like to request that mozilla-bin (binary) be provided along with mozilla (source). Here are the attributes and benefits that mozilla-bin would supply. (1) instantaneous package installation as opposed to long compilation (2) all inclusive suite without refinement of use flags and without excessive dependencies (3) swift comparison and opportunity to reproduce bugs of mozilla (source) compilations on mozilla-bin (4) absence of bugs produced as a result of ebuild Binary packages are already abundant in packages such as openoffice, phoenix, java sdk and ide suites and games and for the same reason mozilla and its users are more than deserving of a quick extraction mozilla-bin package taken straight from mozilla.org. The link is supplied below for the latest version. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.3/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.3.tar.gz I'd be very grateful if a such a package was provided and believe that this concept goes a long way to increasing OS appeal for those without high specification machines and plentiful time for compilation. Many thanks. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Another advantage is that with a new release of mozilla the binary ebuild will make it into the stable tree quicker as it is less likely to suffer from issues. And issues that it does have may be directed to the mozilla bugzilla.
No, we rather want to get .tbz2's more updated and available then having to resort to -bin packages ...
Okay. Close if you wish.
Ask around on the gentoo-dev mailing list about the GRP project for creating binary packages ...
